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This picture taken on February 28, 2015 shows a children bathing at a contaminated borehole at Rier village in south Sudan's Unity state near an abandoned oil treatment facility at Thar Jath in Unity State, South Sudan. Thick black puddles and a looted, leaking ruin are all that remain of the Thar Jath oil treatment facility, once a crucial part of South Sudan's mainstay industry. Lying deep in the bush and swamps of Unity State, far north of the capital Juba, Thar Jath was once a collecting and processing point for crude oil pumped out of nearby wells and on to the Red Sea coast of Sudan for export to oil-thirsty Asian economies. AFP PHOTO / TONY KARUMBA - TO GO WITH AFP STORY:SSUDAN-UNREST-OIL-ENVIRONMENT BY AYMERIC VINCENOITTONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images